looking for a way to automate trigger from android phone to turn a windows application on/off

[mmoalem]

Hi all - was wondering if the following is possible:

I have a motion detecting ccrv software on PC (icam or similar) - there is a bottom that turn surveillance (motion detection) on and off. I can get autoit to automate the clicking on the button. 

 

I want my android phone to send a trigger every time it disconnect from the home network (i.e when I leave home) to tell autoit to turn on surveillance and when reconnecting to home network to trigger it to click off

 

does any one have a suggestion how to go about achieving this?

[jdelaney]

So my computer is connected to my wifi, and my phone is connected to my wifi...so I can ping my phone continually.

When I leave, and my phone disconnects, the ping will return a failure, and I can have the same locally running script on my computer click the button.  Then I'll start looping the ping until it succeeds in pinging the cell phone, and click the other button.

I'm not sure if the IP is generated real time or not though, so it might change with each reconnect.  You can get the IP by going to your wifi page, clicking on your home's wifi settings.  It will display all the info including the IP.

$myCellPhoneIP = "127.0.0.1"

While True
    While Ping($myCellPhoneIP)
        Sleep(5000)
    WEnd
    ConsoleWrite("Failed to ping $myCellPhoneIP=[" & $myCellPhoneIP & "]" & @CRLF)
    ControlClick('yourwindow',"","your button")
    While Not Ping($myCellPhoneIP)
        Sleep(5000)
    WEnd
    ConsoleWrite("Able to ping $myCellPhoneIP=[" & $myCellPhoneIP & "]" & @CRLF)
    ControlClick('yourwindow',"","your button")
WEnd

If the IP does change (you can test by turning on and off your phones wifi), then you will have to google how to dynamically get the ips connected to your network, such as looping through an IP range that your local wifi uses.

 

Edit: I know this isn't exactly what you asked for, you'll have to wait for someone else for your specific question, but this is a very simple way to do the same kind of functionality.

 

Another route: 

I suppose you can then create a file on your phone whenever, which you can check for on your computer, inside that mapped drive.  Then when you get home, you can delete the file, which your script can check for, and turn off your application.

I'd stick with the pings, because then I wouldn't have to do manually add in a file, or manually delete a file, it would just work.

Edited August 11, 2018 by jdelaney

[mmoalem]

thank you very much for the suggestion - very clever work around - didnt even think about this way... the only thing I wonder is the overhead of pinging continuously - I know pinging is only a tiny load on the network but is continuously doing so adds up to a lot of unnecessary  traffic/cpu load ?

[careca]

No problem at all, its not like you're going to crash the network by means of denial of service.

Ping is very light on the network and you can time it for some seconds of interval.

[jdelaney]

You can also increase the sleep time to a minute, or five minutes, or whatever.

[alienclone]

i would suggest you install Tasker and the AutoRemote plugin on your Android phone, then install EventGhost on PC along with its AutoRemote plugin. then spend lots of hours searching the respective forums for those apps to learn how to make Tasker use AutoRemote to send commands to EventGhost to run AutoIt scripts and vice versa. Then after you have your project working to your satisfaction start experimenting with lots of other ways to automate your phone/pc and start making pointless scripts that eat up more of your time than the initial action you wanted to automate would actually take you to perform manually.

[careca]

Ha! that sounds like me sometimes. @alienclone